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In Bangladesh, a controversy arises as CSR funds allegedly support a reform referendum campaign, violating banking rules. Key ...

Every late April, the tiny Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden votes for local leaders and magistrates in accordance with a ...

Mr Mike Igini, a lawyer, served as Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Edo and Akwa Ibom states.  Igini has been in the ...

Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga says public procurement is being used ‘against us’ as South Africans. We agree. That is why we’ve ...

Pete Hegseth accused a Democratic representative of making a “partisan point.” Then she revealed whom she was quoting.

Since 1906, Montana has been able to make laws two ways — through our elected representatives and through direct democracy (or the peoples’ vote — ballot issues). Initially, ballot issues were ...

AI is changing what it means to be a democratic citizen. Here’s how we can harness it for good. Every few centuries, changes ...

EIU grades 167 countries out of ten according to the state of their democracy, and sorts them into four camps: full and flawed democracies, and hybrid and authoritarian regimes. By that measure, ...

The health of America’s democracy declined in 2025, according to new evaluations from organizations that have long tracked how well democracies around the world are working. Source: Pew Research ...

The United States has experimented with democracy for 250 years, but our system of government was once a radical idea, born in ancient Greece. Ravaged by civil war and tyranny 2,500 years ago, the ...

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe on Friday called on state lawmakers to make changes to the state's initiative petition process, a stunning endorsement of a plan to weaken direct democracy in Missouri. Kehoe, ...